11.04.2012

BILLY & HELLS: After Hours

Billy + Hells 1978

from the series “The Astronaut’s Wife”

Billy + Hells

Flug, 2007

Billy + HellsOskar, 2008

After Hours, at Fahey/Klein in L.A., is the first U.S. exhibition
from contemporary
photographers Billy+Hells. This retrospective exhibition is
comprised of their ethereal portraits and atmospheric landscape series. “Billy + Hells” is the
pseudonym for the creative duo comprised of Berlin based photographers
Anke Linz and Andreas Oettinger.

"Billy+Hells’ photographs exist in a world of in-betweens. Their deceptively simple, straightforward portraits convey a certain complexity. The archetypal characters depicted in their photographs—mothers, soldiers, cowboys, nurses, and teachers— possess an underlying sense of mystery, hinting at the duality of the sitter as well as the fictional world they inhabit. Although Billy + Hells’ images call upon historical and art historical references, their portraits are not burdened by the stipulations of historical recreations. Instead, seamlessly blending past and present, reality and fantasy, their photographs become a nostalgic diary, purposefully left open for interpretation."– Fahey/Klein